An overdue post as it’s been six years since I last published an overview of my travel sketches. This reflects a definite slowing of pace but hopefully I’ve managed to maintain the quality, though there have been gaps of literally years between sketches. I now mainly sketch while doing long hikes, where there are few other distractions!

To start with one from Auckland’s wonderful Wintergardens, and a couple from a memorable trip to Ethiopia at the end of 2019.

It was nearly two years before I next sketched, despite all the quiet time of Covid lockdown. In November 2022 I hiked the epic Kanchenjunga Circuit in Nepal and enjoyed almost relearning how to successfully sketch with pen in my A6 sketchbook.

The Peaks of the Balkans was another long hike, but only resulted in one sketch from the start in Theth.

In March 2024 I did a five day hike around Atauro Island in Timor-Leste over a particularly rainy period during the wet season. There was torrential tropical rain every afternoon, thankfully after I’d finished hiking, which gave me time to do a few detailed sketches.

I only did a couple more in Timor-Leste despite having plenty of time.

Another gap of ten months before I did the Ladakh Sky Trail hike in the Indian Himalaya. Toward the end of the hike there was a freak snowstorm which led to us being holed up in a remote homestay with no power or internet, ideal sketching conditions!

I finished 2025 hiking the Manaslu Circuit & Tsum Valley in Nepal, which allowed me to do a sketch nearly every day.